Maybe I'm wrong, but I assumed this is more a concern for mastadon.

If the docile sheep up North don't go for it, then there's no way the slightly less docile sheep South will go for it.

Didn't you hear? Anytime there's more than 5 users we're doomed. We should all just be posting to small 3-5 person communities.

Not sure. But I am still using Apollo and I don't plan on downloading the official app when it dies so at the very least, I will go from 70/30 fediverse to almost 100 percent fediverse.

I'd rather federate with Google plus. I need to get back in touch with my old circles. ;)

I think the main issue is the growth isn't linear. It's sporadic. Usually a big bump after every Reddit fuck up. Lots of bumps lately. Another one coming on the 30th.

say what you will about zuck, but he is not an attention whore. Especially when you consider he made a social media site designed to get people to overshare.

I don’t think you’re using the word gaslighting correctly

Looks normal to me. This phenomena though is perhaps the saddest part of the whole thing. It'll take years to build up a similar amount of excellent info.

What you just described is literally the hardest thing about social media.

I think you probably just want better sorting. He cross-posted to multiple communities at the same time. Browsing by or something similar to new (and therefore not allowing upvotes/downvotes to filter the content) you get things as they're posted.

Through wifi. They used to have IR blasters that work just like the real remote